User: Kamikaze

Re:Huge disk drives or Disk Arrays?

On: 420 Gigabyte Hard Drives

heh...it's extremely cool that they've made them huge, but it's still your standard hard drive format (i.e. the whole spinning disc thing), right? If I'm thinking correctly (and I doubt I am...I've been working until 3am for the last week), wouldn't tons of disks be really really slow?
I'll be interested when high capacity static ram gets cheap and readily available...

Re:Bad Idea

On: Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved

Don't fight the Mother Nature.

Following that line of logic, we should stop:

birth control (if mother nature says you're gonna have a kid, you should have that kid regardless of the quality of life you can provide for it).

any sort of medical research (cancer, aids, alzheimers...who needs to know anything about that anyway?).

any sort of medical ethics (i.e. pulling the plug, Kevorkianesque euthanasia).

everything else that would advance humankind's knowledge of itself or that has a chance of making the world a better place.

good for you (straying a little from the topic)

On: Business Week Online Laughs at Win2K

so there is a way to make windows stable...joy. unfortunately for MS, there are those of us who don't like their entire systems crashing in the first place. Give me a stable Unix anyday...ext2 works well enough for me, and the kernel is stable enough that I really don't see a need for a fs that recovers quickly.

MY Unix server is running on a 486, and I plan to upgrade to 2.4

the computer fairy....

On: Business Week Online Laughs at Win2K

hmmmm....if you leave an intel 486 under your pillow, you get a new p3?? what about amd 486's? If the same holds true, I'll have a k7 tomorrow morning :)